The FCHS NEWSLETTER
www.frenchcolonial.org
President
January 2016 Newsletter
Nathalie Dessens
Ecole Doctorale ALLPH@
Maison de la Recherche
Université Toulouse-Jean Jaurès
5 allées Antonio Machado
31058 TOULOUSE Cedex 9
France
[email protected]
Past President
Kenneth J. Orosz
Dept. of History & Social Studies Education
Buffalo State College
1300 Elmwood Ave
Buffalo, NY 14222 USA
Tel. 716-878-3203
Fax 716-878-3882
e-mail: [email protected]
Vice President
Jennifer Sessions
The new year arrives with a sense of hope and a
renewed commitment to the work we love. The
questions posed by humanists, social scientists
and those in the arts have never been more
crucial as the displacement of peoples and acts
of terror as well as isolationism threaten to
overwhelm impulses to learn, teach and support
each other across differences. As historians,
our obligation to share our knowledge among
ourselves and to a broader public remains
central to furthering those latter goals, which
we do through our communications and
exchanges both electronic and in person once a
year. Please share your work – publications,
presentations, new courses and projects
developed – with the newsletter so that we may
share them even more widely.
Department of History
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242 USA
[email protected]
With hopes for a more peaceful one:
Happy New Year!
Secretary-Treasurer
Editor, French Colonial History
Jennifer Boittin (FCHS)
Micheline Lessard
Dept. of French and Francophone Studies
The Pennsylvania State University
231 Burrowes Building
University Park, PA 16802 USA
[email protected]
Newsletter Editor
Judith DeGroat
Department of History
St. Lawrence University
Canton, NY 13617 USA
Tel. 315-229-5396
e-mail: [email protected]
Department of History
University of Ottawa
55 Laurier Avenue East, Room 9108
Ottawa, ON, K1N 6N5 CA
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Web Master
Katie Edwards
Department of History, Geography and Philosophy
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
PO Box 43605
Lafayette, LA 70501 USA
[email protected]
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President’s Message
Dear all,
Let me start this address by wishing you a Happy New Year! May 2016 be a peaceful and
productive year for all of you. Like all French people, I was happy to see 2015 end. It started and
ended in blood and terror and sadness. But like many of my compatriots, I want to think that we
will draw from this dreadful experience to try to make a better world. Immediately after the
November attacks, the Society set an example. The terrible events triggered an extremely
dynamic project, the #Parissyllabus initiative. Launched by Jennifer Sessions, the incoming
president of the Society, its aim is to collect and organize reliable, in-depth resources for
educators who want to discuss the recent events with their students. The project triggered an
incredibly active response from many of you and, from the messages we received, a real interest
on the part of many, inside and outside the Society. If some of you have not yet seen it, the
syllabus is to be found on the website, in the pedagogy section at
http://www.frenchcolonial.org/index.php/pedagogy-resources, with further discussion on Twitter
under the hashtag #ParisSyllabus. This is an ongoing project, and I encourage interested
members to keep it going.
Although a sad year that many wanted over, 2015 has been good for the society. The
Binghamton conference was another great conference, enabling us to meet again and exchange
on our favorite topics. The Society is also on Facebook now, and has become more visible in the
social networks. This is the advantage of having young board members! We all need to thank
Katie Edwards, Jennifer Boittin and Jennifer Sessions for this.
2016 will, no doubt, be another great year for the Society. We will go back to Canada since the
University of Ottawa is hosting our conference this year. Micheline Lessard has been on board
for quite some time as local organizer, and I would like to express my gratitude to her for the
work she has already done. With the assistance of Benoît Grenier, Sarah Zimmerman and Robin
Mitchell, who joined Micheline on the program committee, have been wonderful in putting
together a great preliminary program (enclosed in this newsletter), for which I extend my
heartfelt thanks. Micheline is being assisted by a great team in Ottawa. This is my first occasion
to thank those who have joined her in the local arrangement committee: Nicole St Onge,
Meredith Terretta, Ryme Seferdjeli, Lotfi ben Rejeb, Guy Dondo, and Marc Farine. As you can
read in the present newsletter, this promises to be another wonderful conference.
This year is also an election year for the society. My term as president will be over in July and
Jennifer Boittin, who has done a wonderful task as Secretary-Treasurer, will see her term expire
as well. We will have to elect a president, a vice-president, and a Secretary-Treasurer. An
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electronic ballot will be distributed to members in the upcoming weeks. I will sustain the
suspense until then but I am happy to report that we have great candidates for the three positions.
The beginning of the year is the perfect period for good resolutions. Those of you who published
a book in 2015 must remember to send their books to Jean-François Brière, who is chairing the
book prize committee. This is a good occasion to remind you that we have a new chronological
division between the two prizes. The Mary Alice and Philip Boucher Book Prize will be awarded
to the best book dealing with the French colonial experience from the 16th century to 1815, and
the Alf Andrew Heggoy Book Prize to the best book dealing with the French colonial experience
from 1815 to the present. The deadline for submissions is March 1st. Submission information is
available on the Society’s website at http://www.frenchcolonial.org/index.php/2012-07-23-2043-53/book-prizes.
Among your good resolutions should also be to submit articles to French Colonial History. As I
always say, the journal is what we make of it. It is thus important to send submissions to
Micheline Lessard, the current editor, at [email protected]. Submission
guidelines may be found on the website at http://www.frenchcolonial.org/index.php/journal.
We already know that Isabelle Dion, Pierre Gombert, and the Archives d’Outre-Mer will be our
hosts in Aix in 2017 and we look forward to it. 2018 and beyond are still open and if you are
willing to host the conference, please contact us and we will be happy to help you prepare a
proposal to be presented at the Ottawa meeting.
Do not forget that the society is a non-profit organization that only lives by the generous
donations of its members. Remember to renew your membership (being a member in good
standing is a prerequisite to presenting at the annual conference) and remember that we have a
number of funds aimed at encouraging publication (Heggoy and Boucher book prizes) and at
helping our graduate students publish (Eccles Prize) and participate to the annual conference
(Shorrock Prize). It is really important to encourage good scholarship among our members and to
help the future generation of scholars get on track. You can follow the lead of our generous
donators by going to the website and clicking on “Donate”.
Also remember that the Newsletter is the best way to remain in contact with the society and to
inform our community on publications and events. You can send any announcements or other
materials to Judith DeGroat ([email protected]). Items of interest may also be posted to our
new Facebook page, which we warmly invite FCHS members and other interested parties to join.
Again, I thank all those, among the board members and the members of the committees for the
Ottawa conference, for all the work they have done since July.
Bonne année à tous et rendez-vous à Ottawa où j’espère vous voir nombreux !
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Nathalie Dessens
Prizes and Awards
Mary Alice and Philip Boucher Book Prize, 2016
The Boucher book prize is awarded annually by the French Colonial Historical Society in honor
of long time members and active supporters Mary Alice and Philip Boucher. The prize
recognizes the best book published in the preceding year dealing with the French colonial
experience from the 16th century to 1848. Books from any academic discipline will be
considered, providing that they approach the French colonial experience from an historical
perspective. The deadline for this year’s submissions is March 1, 2016. Questions about the
submission process should be addressed to Dr. Jean-François Brière, Chair of the FCHS Book
Prize Committee, at [email protected]
Applicants or their publishers should submit three copies of books published in 2015 (date of
publication is determined by the copyright page of the book), one to each of the book prize
committee members.
Alf Andrew Heggoy Book Prize, 2014-2015
Each year the French Colonial Historical Society presents a book in honor of one of its founding
members, Alf Andrew Heggoy. Book prize recognition includes an award of US $500 for the
best book published during the previous year dealing with the French colonial experience from
the 16th to the 20th century. Books from any academic discipline will be considered but they
must approach the consideration of the French colonial experience from an historical
perspective. The deadline for this year is March 1, 2016. Questions about how to submit entries
should be addressed to Dr. Jean-François Brière, FCHS Prize Committee Chair at
[email protected]
Applicants or their publishers should submit three copies of books published in 2015 (date of
publication is determined by the copyright page of the book), one to each of the book prize
committee members:
Chair:
Dr. Jean-François Brière
Department of Languages,
Literatures & Cultures, HU. 235
University at Albany/SUNY
1400 Washington Avenue
Albany NY 12222 USA
Dr. Ruth Ginio
Department of History
Ben Gurion University of the
Negev
P.O.B. 653
Beer-Sheeva 84105 Israel
Dr. Brett Rushforth
History Department
College of William and Mary
Box 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
USA
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The awards will be announced at the annual conference of the French Colonial Historical Society
in Ottawa, 19-21 May 2016.
W. J. Eccles Prize, 2015-2016
The W.J. Eccles Prize is to be awarded annually to the graduate student or recent postgraduate student judged to have presented the best paper at the annual meeting of the French
Colonial Historical Society and subsequently published in the society's journal French Colonial
History. The prize is meant to encourage beginning academics in the field of French Colonial
History and to honor the career of one of French Colonial History's greatest historians. Bill
Eccles was an outstanding supporter of graduate students and this prize is meant to continue his
work by encouraging those at the beginning of their careers in our field.
Application Procedures
Graduate student presenters at the meeting in Ottawa, 19-21 May 2016, should submit an
electronic copy of their paper to the editor of French Colonial History, Dr. Micheline Lessard, at
[email protected] immediately following the meeting. Session chairs are urged to
encourage graduate student members of their panels to submit their papers.
William Shorrock Travel Award
The William Shorrock Travel Award is presented annually to help defray travel costs for
graduate students presenting papers at the French Colonial Historical Society’s annual
meeting. In addition to being a long time member and past President of the society, Bill
Shorrock was a passionate supporter of graduate students. This award honors his memory and
continues his work as a mentor by providing travel assistance to those just beginning their
careers in the field of French colonial history.
Application Procedures
When submitting their completed paper or panel proposals for the annual meeting, graduate
students wishing to be considered for the Shorrock Travel Award must also furnish the program
committee with an estimated budget of travel expenses (including other anticipated sources of
funding) and a brief statement formally applying for the award. Please note that all participants
in the annual meeting must be members in good standing of the Society.
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FRENCH COLONIAL HISTORICAL/SOCIETY SOCIÉTÉ D’HISTOIRE
COLONIALE FRANÇAISE
42nd Annual Meeting/42ème Congrès annuel 19-21 May/mai 2016 Ottawa
PROGRAM/PROGRAMME
Thursday, May 19/jeudi 19 mai
8:00-12:30
Registration/Inscription
8:30-10:00
Welcome/Accueil
Alf Andrew Heggoy Book Prize Panel/ Remise du Prix Alf Andrew Heggoy
Recipient/Récipiendaire: Elizabeth Heath
Discussant/Discutant: Richard Fogarty (SUNY at Albany)
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break/Pause café 10:30-12:00
Concurrent Panels/Ateliers en parallèle
1A) The End of the Colonial School ? The Late Colonial State and School Reform (19401960)/ La fin de l’école indigène ? État colonial tardif et réforme solaire (1946-1960)
Chair/Modérateur: Benoît Trépied (CNRS, IRIS-EHESS, Paris)
Harry Gamble (College of Wooster): Fin ou renouveau de l’école coloniale en Afrique
occidentale française? Réforme scolaire à l’époque de la citoyenneté (1946-1960).
Edenz Maurice (Sciences Po, Paris) : L’école dans la décolonisation de la Guyane (1946-fin des
années 1960).
Marie Salaün (Université Paris Descartes) : Transformer les « citoyens indigènes » en
« Français de Polynésie » : la nationalisation de l’enseignement à Tahiti et ses enjeux (19461960).
1B) Persistent French Heritage and Alliances in Anglophone America/Héritage français et
alliances dans l’Amérique anglophone
Chair/Modérateur: Nathalie Dessens (Université de Toulouse-Jean-Jaurès)
Paula Wheeler Carlo (Nassau Community College SUNY): Hugenots: Un-French French
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Migrants?
William Thompson (The University of Memphis): Three Centuries of French Heritage in Old
Mines, Missouri
Leslie Choquette (Assumption College): A Forgotten Francophonie Confronts French Politics
during WWII : The Case of Wilfrid Beaulieu’s “Le Travailleur”
1C) People Smuggling and Unfree labor in Colonial Indochina/Trafic humain et travail
servile dans l’Indochine coloniale
Chair/Modérateur: TBD
Micheline Lessard (University of Ottawa): Beyond the Sea and into the Forests: Tonkinese
Labour Migrants in French Indochina
Christina Firpo (California Polytechnic State University): Prostitution, Debt Bondage, and
Urban Migration in Late Colonial Tonkin.
Trude Jacobsen (Northern Illinois University): Porous Borders and the Peripatetic Paysanne:
Cambodia as a Metaphor for Movement Within the French Empire.
12:00-2:00
Lunch/Déjeuner
2:00-3:30
Concurrent Panels/Ateliers en parallèle
2A) Policies and Practices during the Algerian War for Liberation/Politiques et pratiques
pendant la guerre de libération en Algérie
Chair/Modérateur: TBD
Eliane Itti (Université de Toulouse-Jean Jaurès) : L’Algérie française dans les manuels scolaires
(1883-1988)
Pierre Gombert (Archives nationales d’outre-mer) : Enseigner le français en temps de guerre :
l’action éducative des sections administratives spécialisées en Algérie (1955-1962)
Rémi Larue (EHESS/CNRS) : Un appel à la trêve civile tombé dans l’oubli
2B) Comment penser les Métis du 18e et du 19e siècles après l’arrêt Powley (2003)?/How to
Consider the Métis of the 18th and 19th Centuries after the Powley Act (2003)?
Chair/modérateur : Denis Gagnon (Université de Saint-Boniface, Winnipeg)
Muriel Clair (Université de Saint-Boniface) : Quelles langues parlent les premières générations
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de Métis?
Claire Garnier (Université de Saint-Boniface) : S’unir à une femme d’icitte : pour quoi faire?
Claudie Larcher (Université Laval) : Comment penser des collectivité semi-nomades, lorsque le
juridique enjoint à situer la naissance des Métis dans un lieu précis?
2C) Childhood and Schools in Colonial Asia/ L’enfance et les écoles en Asie coloniale
Chair/Modératrice: Micheline Lessard (Université d’Ottawa)
Melody Shum (The University of Hong Kong): Colonial Childhood in French Kwang Chow
Wan (1930’s-1940’s)
David Pomfret (The University of Hong Kong): “Yes I believe I would be Better off Dead”:
French Children in Colonial Asia
Anne Raffin (National University of Singapore): Forgotten Francophonie: The Case of the
French Indian Outposts during the Third Republic
3:30-4:00
Coffee Break/Pause café
4:00-5:30
Concurrent Panels/Ateliers en parallèle
3A) Gender and Education in Colonial North Africa/Genre et éducation dans l’Afrique du
Nord coloniale
Chair/Modérateur: Judith DeGroat (St. Lawrence University)
Linda Clark (Millersville University of Pennsylvania): Students at the Ecole Normale
d’Institutrices in Colonial Algeria, 1875-1914.
Rebecca Rogers (Université Paris Descartes) : Changing Representations of North African
Educational Spaces for Girls: Decoding the French Civilizing Mission.
Etty Terem (Rhodes College): Gender and Social Reform in Colonial Morocco
Adrienne Tyrey (Michigan State University): Separate but Equal? Arab vs Berber Education
under the French Protectorate of Morocco, and the Case of Arabic at the Collège berbère
d’Azrou.
3B) Contested Monuments and Sites: Commemorating the French Past in Canada and the
Caribbean/Monuments et sites contestés: mémorialisation du passé français au Canada et
dans la Caraïbe
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Chair/Modérateur: TBD
Sophia Khadraoui (Kenyon College): Solitude: Monuments croisés, mémoires entrelacées
Anne Marie Lane Jonah (Parks Canada): One Site Many Stories: Making a “National” History
for Port Royal/Fort Anne in 1917
Marie-Claude Dionne (Université Laval): Getting the Founding Myth Treatment: Remembering
France’s First Canadian Colony
3C) Literature and Representations of French Colonialism and Decolonization/ Littérature et
représentations du colonialisme français et de la décolonisation
Chair/modérateur: TBD
Maureen DeNino (Princeton University): “Un Eldorado océanien”: Colonial Ambivalence in
Alphonse Daudet’s Port-Tarascon
Kwaku Gyasi (University of Alabama in Hunstville): Henri Lopes and the Search for a Hybrid
Identity in Le Lys et le Flamboyant
Spencer Segalla (University of Tampa): Memoirs of Disaster: Portraying Decolonization amidst
Seismic Catastrophe in Algeria and Morocco since 1954
6:00-8:00 Reception (cash bar)/Soirée (bar payant)
Friday, May 20/vendredi 20 mai
8:30-10:00 2015
Mary Alice and Philip Boucher Prize/Remise du Prix 2014 Mary Alice et Philip Boucher
Recipient/Récipiendaire: Christian Ayne Crouch
Discussant/Discutant: Brett Rushforth (College of William and Mary)
10:00-10:30
Coffee Break/ Pause café
10:30-12:00
Concurrent Sessions/Ateliers en parallèle
4A) Gender in Colonial Identities and Relations/Rapports de genre dans les identités et les
relations coloniales
Chair/Modérateur: Jennifer Boittin (Pennsylvania State University)
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Ryme Seferdjeli (Université d’Ottawa): Reflecting on the History of Women, Gender, and
Sexuality in Colonial Algeria
Jennifer Sessions (University of Iowa): Settler Women and Social Relations in Colonial Algeria
Rachel Jean-Baptiste (University of California-Davis): “The Dignified Men we are Meant to
Be”: Métis boys and Vocational Education in Twentieth Century Colonial Senegal
4B) Curing their Ills : Colonial Psychiatry and Medicine/ Soigner les maux: psychiatrie et
médecine coloniales
Chair/Modérateur: TBD
Maureen Shanahan (James Madison University): Refusing psychiatry and Physiognomy:
Gaëtan Gatian de Clérambault’s Veiled Photography
Paul Marquis (Yale University): “Dieu m’a dérangé la tête » : Colonial Madness in Algeria
(1933-1963)
Birane Dieng (Université Cheikh Anta Diop) : La lutte contre la lèpre au Sénégal de 1905-1973
4C) Unexpected Legacies of French Colonialism in North America/Héritages français
inattendus en Amérique du Nord
Chair/Modérateur: TBD
Stephanie Pettigrew, Keith Grant, and Elizabeth Mancke (University of New Brunswick):
Forgotten Narratives of the Acadian Deportation
Nicolas Landry: Des vassaux non-désirés? Résistance administrative à l’établissement
d’Acadiens à Saint-Pierre et Miquelon au 18e siècle
Mikael Dumont (Université de Montréal) : Les festivités hivernales chez les francophones de la
région de Détroit et du Pays de l’Illinois
12:00-2:00 Lunch/Déjeuner
2:00-3:30
Concurrent Sessions/Ateliers en parallèle
5A) Intractable Frenchness: New Orleans in the Era of the Louisiana Purchase / Français à
tout prix: La Nouvelle Orléans au début de l’ère américaine
Chair/Modérateur: TBD
Garrett Andrew Fontenot (University of Notre Dame): Rebecoming French: Reintegrating
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Louisiana into the French Empire, 1803
Nathalie Dessens (Université de Toulouse Jean-Jaurès) : Nos hommes, notre langue :
Francophonie et militantisme à la Nouvelle Orléans au XIXe siècle
Julien P. Vernet (University of British Columbia Okanagan): Questions for Expansionists:
North American Francophone populations’ Questions about the Implications of NineteenthCentury Canadian and American Western territorial Expansion
5B) Spaces of Sovereignty in the French Imperial Mediterranean/Espaces de souveraineté
dans l’empire français méditérranéen
Chair/Modérateur: TBD
Brock Cutler (Radford University): Toxic Modernity: Haussman, Debris, and the Empire in
Algeria
Adam Guerin (Eckerd College): Land, Hunger, and Relief on the Moroccan Frontier, 19171939
Robert J. Watson (Stetson University): The Struggle for Cinematic Sovereignty in the Eastern
Mediterranean, 1945-1956
5C) Family Planning and Marital Law across French Empires/ Planning familial et lois
matrimoniales dans l’empire français
Chair/Modérateur: Sarah Zimmerman (Western Washington University)
Alice Bairoch de Sainte-Marie (Universitéde Genève) : Loi, nationalité et mariages mixtes
entre Français et autochtones : le cas de l’arrêt du conseil supérieur de la Louisiane du 18
décembre 1728
Mima Cvetkovic (Ryerson University): From New France to Paris: A Case of Trans-Atlantic
Marriage Annulment
Margaret Cook Andersen (The University of Tennessee): Family Policy and Collaborationism
in Morocco, 1950-1945
3:30-4:00
Coffee Break/Pause café
4:00-5:30 Concurrent Panels/Ateliers en parallèle
6A) Nationalisms in Twentieth Century Francophonie/Nationalismes dans l’espace
francophone au vingtième siècle
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Chair/Modérateur: TBD
Alexander Keese (Université de Genève): The Empire of Misunderstandings: Reinterpreting
French Late Colonialism in West Africa, 1945-1960
Guy Dondo (Université d’Ottawa): L’autonomie politique par l’économie : le colonialisme
selon Bui Quang Chieu à la fin des années 1920 en Indochine
Phi Van Nguyen (Cornell University): Postcolonial Partners, French and Vietnamese Economic
Development Programs for the Containment of Communism, 1949-1963
Zorian Stech (Université de Montréal) : Institution de rattachement : Le mouvement Nagriamel
aux Nouvelles-Hébrides : ses allégeances changeantes et la naissance du Vemarana
6B) Teaching French Colonial History : An Open Discussion/Enseigner l’histoire coloniale
française: une discussion ouverte
Commentary/Commentaires: Audience/Auditoire
Kathryn Edwards (University of Louisiana at Lafayette): Teaching the Second French Empire:
Approaches and Resources
Jennifer Sessions (University of Iowa): #Parissyllabus: Pedagogy and Social Media
Judith DeGroat (St-Lawrence University): Digital Humanities and Technologies in the
Teaching of French Colonial History
6C) Learning and Mapping the Landscape of a World Becoming French/Apprendre et
cartographier un paysage dans un monde devenu français
Chair/Modérateur: TBD
Isabelle Charron (Bibliothèque et Archives Canada) : La conquête sur une table à dessin ou le
récit cartographique de la fin de la Nouvelle-France
Karine Bellerose Caldwell (Bibliothèque et Archives Canada) : Les péripéties d’un officier
français en 1758-1759 : de la France à l’Angleterre, en passant par Louisbourg
Guillaume Teasdale (University of Windsor) : “Jouir du Détroit en toute propriété et
seigneurie”: Cadillac et la question foncière dans le Pays d’en Haut
6:00-8:00 Reception/Réception
Saturday, May 21/samedi 21 mai
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8:30-10:00 Concurrent panels/Ateliers en parallèle
7A) Policing the French Colonial State : Politics, Security, and the Limits of Imperial Control
in Algeria and Indochina/Maintien de l’ordre colonial: politique, sécurité et limites du
contrôle impérial
Chair/Modérateur: Geoff Read (Huron College, Western University)
Samuel Kalman (St. Francis Xavier University): Nationalist Politics or Anti-Imperial
Terrorism? Police and Judicial Campaigns to Redefine Dissenting Political Movements in
Colonial Algeria, 1944-1954
James H. Lehning (University of Utah): Policing Unrest in Colonial Tonkin in the Early 20th
Century
Discussant/Discutant: Jennifer Sessions (University of Iowa)
7B) Eighteenth-Century North American Affairs’ Influence Upon French
Colonialism/L’Influence de l’Amérique du nord sur le colonialism français au dix-huitième
siècle
Chair/Modérateur: TBD
Greg Rogers (University of Maine): Petty Victories and Petite Politique: New France’s
Exercise of Power in the Lake Ontario Borderlands in the Seven Years War
Robert Englebert (University of Saskatchewan): The Forgotten Alliance: French-Indigenous
relations and Pan-Native coalition in Upper Louisiana, 1784-1795
Andrew Dial (McGill University): The La Valette Affair: A Colonial Scandal Arrives in France
7C) Revolutionary France and the Islamic World : Political Culture, Geopolitics and
Violence/La France révolutionnaire et le monde islamique : culture politique, géopolitique et
violence
Chair/Modérateur: TBD
Ian Coller (University of California, Irvine): The Turban of Liberty: Muslims in the French
Revolution of 1789
Pascal Firges (German Historical Institute, Paris): On Silent Feet: French Revolutionaries in the
Ottoman Empire
Aaron Freundschuh: (Queens College, City University of New York): Who killed General
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Kléber?: Colonialism and Conspiracy Theory in Nineteenth Century France
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break/Pause café
10:30-12:00 Concurrent Panels/Ateliers en parallèle
8A) Unconventional Representatives and Representations of Colonial French
Empire/Représentations non-conventionnelles de l’empire français
Chair/Modérateur: TBD
Taro Oishi (Kwansei Gakun University, Japan): Japanese Immigrants in New Caledonia, 18921941
Molly J. Giblin (Florida International University) Fantasies of China on the Champs de Mars:
Gendering Semicoloniality at the Exposition Universelle, 1867
Alexandre Fontaine (Université de Genève) : Des Suisses dans le Maghreb. Une présence
invisible active dans le transfert de savoirs médicaux et pédagoqiques (1850-1950).
8B) Stories of War, Murder and Insanity in the Modern French Colonial Empire
(Roundtable)/Histoires de guerres, de meurtres et de folie dans l’empire colonial français
moderne (table ronde)
Commentary/Commentaires: The audience/l’auditoire
Richard C, Fogarty (University of Albany, SUNY): Captivating Stories of Captivity: North
Africans as POWs and Storytellers During the Great War
Ruth Ginio (Ben Gurion University of the Negev): A Murder and its Aftermath as a Window to
the Historical Processes in Senegal at the end of the 19th Century
Jennifer Anne Boittin (The Pennsylvania State University): Female Madness and French
Civilization: aliénés in the AOF
8C)Post-Colonial Ruptures and Disruptions of Identity/Identités postcoloniales: ruptures et
déchirures
Chair/Modérateur: TBD
Mamadou Moustapha Ly (University of Denver): (Re)Integrating the Immigrant in “Quand les
murs tombent: L’identité hors-la loi? By Edouard Glissant and Patrick Chamoiseau
Herve Toussaint Ondua (Université de Yaoundé 1) : Jacques Derrida : La question des grands
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ensembles et la périphérie comme lieu invisible
Benoit Trépied (CNRS), La décolonisation sans l’indépendance? Sortir du colonial dans une
colonie de peuplement française (Nouvelle Calédonie, 1946-2016)
12:00-2:00 Lunch/Déjeuner
2:00-3:30 Concurrent Panels/Ateliers en parallèle
9A) Questioning French Subjects and Identities Outside of Empire/Sujets français et identités
en question hors de l’empire
Chair/Modérateur: TBD
Robert J. Watson (Stetson University): Losing Linguistic Ground in Egypt and the Levant:
French Cinema’s Struggle for Survival, 1945-1956
Claude Couture (Université de l’Alberta, Saint-Jean) and/et Srilata Ravi (Université de
l’Alberta, Augustana) : La présence française dans l’empire britannique au 18e et 19e siècles
Shana Minkin (The University of the South) : French Imperial Bodies in 19th Century
Alexandria
9B) The Central Role of Haiti in Shaping Identities, Relations, and Policies after the
Revolution
Chair/modérateur: TBD
Julia Gaffield (Georgia State University): Haitian Diplomacy after 1804: Sovereignty and
Trade with the British Empire
Philippe Zacaïr (California State University, Fullerton): Tantôt noirs, tantôt étrangers: les
Guadeloupéens et Martiniquais d’Haïti (1890-1914)
9C) Missionary Affairs and Colonization in Global France/Entreprises missionnaires et
colonization dans l’empire français
Chair/Modérateur: TBD
Takao Abé (Yamagata-Prefectural College): The Global Network of Communication behind the
Christian Mission in New France
Syprien Christian Zogo Tsanga (Université Laval) : La rencontre religieuse en pays Bamum :
économie morale et subjectivité politique
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Joy Varkey (N.A.M College, Kerala): Catholic Missionary Interventions, Caste Issues and
French Colonial Policies in South India
3:30-4:00 Coffee break/Pause café
3:30-4:00 Business Meeting/Assemblée générale
7:00-9:30 Banquet
FRENCH COLONIAL HISTORICAL/SOCIETY SOCIÉTÉ
D’HISTOIRE COLONIALE FRANÇAISE
42nd Annual Meeting/42ème Congrès annuel 19-21 May/mai 2016 Ottawa
LOGISTICS/LOGISTIQUES
(N.b. further details forthcoming on the Society’s webpage)
Ottawa and the University of Ottawa:
The University of Ottawa is located in the downtown core of the city of Ottawa. It is within easy
walking distance to numerous historical sites, such as the Canadian Parliament, and the Byward
Market. The National Archives of Canada, on Wellington Street, are also easily accessible from
the university, either on foot or via public transportation. The National Arts Centre, le Petit
Théâtre, and a number of museums are close by.
Founded by Oblates in the nineteenth century, the University of Ottawa is itself part of the rich
history of French Canada. The university also has as its mission the promotion and the
preservation of the French language in Ontario.
One of the defining characteristics of the University of Ottawa and a source of its richness is its
bilingualism and its special role in the Francophone communities in Ontario, across Canada and
around the world.
The University of Ottawa also houses the Centre de recherches en civilisation canadiennefrançaise (CCRF) and hosts numerous chaires de francophonie.
Getting there:
Via Air Travel:
Ottawa International Airport is located about 16 km’s south of the University of Ottawa campus.
An average taxi ride from the airport to downtown Ottawa is about 29$ Transportation from the
airport also includes the possibility of making reservations for shuttle service. Public transport
(OC Transport) does offer a bus route to downtown from the airport. From the airport take OC
bus line 97 to Laurier Station (average time of ride is 27 minutes). Current OC transport rates are
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3.40 (for a regular route) and 4.80 (for an express route) in cash each way. Buses are accessible
for handicapped persons
Via Train Travel:
Attendees from Montreal and along the Toronto Ottawa corridor can use VIA Rail to get to
Ottawa. Fares vary according to time and to promotions. There are several trains each day from
each departure city. The Ottawa train station is not in the downtown core, but it is quite close,
about 5 km’s. Access to the downtown area is easy via Taxi (about 10-12$)
LOCAL TRANSPORT
Much of what Ottawa has to offer is within easy walking distance from the University of Ottawa
campus. Nonetheless other attractions may be reached with the OC Transpo public transport bus
system. There are both regular routes and rapid transit routes. There are two rapid transit bus
stops located within the area of the University of Ottawa campus. OC Transpo buses are
accessible to handicapped passengers.
ATTRACTIONS
Within walking distance of campus:
Parliament Hill, the Byward Market, The National Gallery, The Royal Canadian Mint, Rideau
Canal (UNESCO World heritage site), the National Arts Centre, Sparks Street Mall, Rideau
Centre, Supreme Court, Archives Canada
Easily Accessible via Public Transit:
The Canadian War Museum, the Museum of Civilisation, the Canadian Aviation Museum, the
Canada Museum of Nature, the Canada Science and Technology Museum, The Diefenbunker
(Canada’s Cold War Museum), Bytown Museum, Gatineau Park, RCMP Stables, Rideau Hall
(Governor General’s Mansion and Park), 24 Sussex Drive (Prime Minister’s Residence)
ACCOMMODATIONS:
Please find below a list of accommodations: a range with respect to price and the type of
accommodation. You will also find the current rates. The Hotels have group rates, but these have
not yet been factored in. Therefore the hotel rates could be lower than indicated. We will advise
you shortly as to the group rates. Please mention FCHS when making reservations.
On Campus:
Current rates range from 35$ (for conventional residences), to 99$ (for campus-style suites).
Off Campus:
Please note that all these possibilities are within 5 to 20 minutes walking distance to and from
campus (and the buildings noted in the previous pages)
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HOTELS:
Novotel (current average rate is around 170$)
Westin Ottawa (current average rate is about 220$)
Lord Elgin Hotel (current average rate is 170$)
Les Suites (current average rate is between 155$ to 245$)
BED AND BREAKFAST:
Auberge King Edward (between 100$ and 115$)
The Swiss Hotel (between 139$ and 268$)
Ottawa Centre B&B (between 115$ and 135$)
Alexander House (between 85$ and 125$)
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French Colonial Historical Society
Société d’Histoire Coloniale Française
Membership Dues (calendar annual)*
Please complete the form below and mail to:
Jennifer Boittin (FCHS)
Dept. of French and Francophone Studies
The Pennsylvania State University
231 Burrowes Building
University Park, PA 16802 USA
Regular FCHS/SHCF membership ($65 US funds or $65 Canadian funds). Regular members
receive copies of the Newsletter and the annual issue of our journal French Colonial History. Make
checks payable to the French Colonial Historical Society.
Student membership (US $35 or CDN $35). Student members receive copies of the Newsletter and
the annual issue of our journal French Colonial History. Make checks payable to the French Colonial
Historical Society.
Life members (US $650 or CDN $650). A new opportunity for those interested in the FCHS/SHCF
is the life membership, which makes an important contribution to the support of the Society while
simultaneously unburdening a member from ever paying dues again. Think about it…good for you, good
for the Society, and, potentially a good tax deduction. Make checks payable to the French Colonial
Historical Society.
Contribution to W.J. Eccles Memorial Prize Fund (any currency accepted).
Contribution to Alf Heggoy Memorial Book Prize Fund (any currency accepted).
Contribution to the Shorrock Memorial Travel Fund (any currency accepted).
Total Amount Enclosed: $
*Membership runs from calendar year to calendar year beginning in January. A member is no
longer in good standing should s/he not have paid his/her dues by 1 March of the new calendar
membership year.
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